1739: English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter:
"I look upon all the world as my parish."
1747:
American missionary David Brainerd, 28, ended two-and-one-half years of labor among the
colonial Indians of New England, after having been continually plagued with ill health.
(Brainerd died of tuberculosis seven months later.)
1840:
Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'The more God opens your
eyes, the more you will feel that you are lost in yourself."
1852:
American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 41, published her classic antislavery novel, Uncle
Tom's Cabin. The controversy it kindled helped lead to the American Civil War, nine
years later.
1928:
Birth of Fred Rogers, American Presbyterian clergyman and, since its premiere in 1965,
host of public television's longest running children's program: Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood.
Source: William D. Blake. Almanac
of the Christian Church, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional
information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
